diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 8964abc..6010906 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -83,5 +83,13 @@ COPY hbase-site.xml ~/hbase-site.xml
 RUN mkdir -p /hadoop/zookeeper
 RUN chown -R $USER:$USER /hadoop/
 
+# Install Hive
+RUN wget https://dlcdn.apache.org/hive/hive-3.1.3/apache-hive-3.1.3-bin.tar.gz
+RUN tar -xzvf apache-hive-3.1.3-bin.tar.gz
+RUN mv apache-hive-3.1.3-bin /usr/local/hive
+RUN echo "export HIVE_HOME=/usr/local/hive" >> ~/.bashrc
+RUN echo "export PATH=\$PATH:\$HIVE_HOME/bin" >> ~/.bashrc
+RUN echo "HADOOP_HOME=/usr/local/hadoop" >> /usr/local/hive/bin/hive-config.sh
+
 # Expose necessary ports
 EXPOSE 9870 8088 9000
diff --git a/init b/init
index 7178f39..ca1fb32 100644
--- a/init
+++ b/init
@@ -1,9 +1,19 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
-service ssh restart
-stop-hbase.sh
+
+service ssh restart                 # restart ssh service
+stop-hbase.sh                       # stop all processes
 stop-all.sh
-hdfs namenode -format
-rm *.tar.gz
-start-all.sh
+hdfs namenode -format               # format namenodes
+rm *.tar.gz                         # delete all tar files to save space
+
+# start all
+start-all.sh    
 start-hbase.sh
-jps
\ No newline at end of file
+
+# hive initialization
+hdfs dfs -mkdir /tmp
+hdfs dfs -chmod g+w /tmp
+hdfs dfs -mkdir -p /user/hive/warehouse
+hdfs dfs -chmod g+w /user/hive/warehouse
+schematool -dbType derby -initSchema
+